T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

63

January Session, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,
chapter one hundred and twenty-nine, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 62.

AN ACT relative to the establishment of a Light
House on Sandy Point in Anne Arundel county,
and to cede to the United States the jurisdiction
of the State of Maryland in, to, and over a site for
for the same.

Passed Mar.
6, 1856.

WHEREAS: The navigation of the Chesapeake Bay
in the neighborhood of Sandy Point requires, for
its safety, the establishment of a Light House; and
whereas, the Government of the United States has
made an adequate appropriation for that object,
which will be applied under the direction of the
Light House Board, as soon as the proper site can
be obtained at a just value; therefore:

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Horatio Ridout and Lemuel G.
Taylor, of Anne Arundel county, and Isaac Denson,
of the City of Baltimore, be and they are hereby ap-
pointed commissioners to ascertain and fix a fair val-
ue upon any site or sites which may be selected at
or near Sandy Point, by any authorised agent of the
United States, for the purpose of keeping a Light
House, a house for the keeper to live in, and a gar-
den spot thereon, with a power to said commission-
ers to fill vacancies in their body, to fix and deter-
mine the value of the land required by the agent of
the United States for the aforesaid object, and they,
or a majority of said commissioners, shall be and are
hereby authorised, after they have given thirty days
notice in two of the most convenient newspapers, to
value and appraise said land, taking into considera-
tion the advantages and disadvantages to the propri-
etor or proprietors attendant upon the establishment
of a lighthouse as aforesaid, upon the land aforesaid,

Commission-
ers appointed.